Give plain white dishtowels a new look with a little paint

Hi guys! Meg from Green With Decor here, and I’m excited
to be back at The Kim Six Fix today. I have a fun DIY dishtowel project to
share today.

I love white kitchens.
When we renovated our kitchen a few years
ago, we picked white cabinets, white counters and white backsplash. I love it
and am still happy with our choices.

Plus it makes it easy to
add pops of color to the space without worrying about anything not matching the
white counters and cabinets. Big surprise, but most of my pops of color in the
kitchen are green!

We needed some new
dishtowels and after looking around, I decided to make my own.

Here’s what you need for
this project:

Plain white cotton
dishtowels

Fabric paint (colors of your choice)

Foam paintbrush

Painter’s tape

I always love DIY projects that are fun to make and are
useful around the house.

I started by laying out
the design on the dishtowels. I used painter’s tape to lay the stripes.

I taped a piece of painter’s tape to a piece of paper, using that as a makeshift stencil so the painted and plain white stripes would be the same width.

Something about having the
stripes the same width makes the organizer in me happy! Of course, feel free to
make the width of the stripes whatever size you want.

I chose to decorate about
half of each towel, knowing the plain half would be hanging behind the front
half anyway, so it wouldn’t matter if it was painted or not.

Shake your fabric paint to
prep it for painting. Then use a foam brush to apply the paint to the towel.

I dabbed it on rather than
using brush strokes. One coat was enough. I just filled in a few spots where
the paint was a little thin.

And here are the finished
towels:

I love the pop of color
they add to the kitchen!

How do you add color to
your kitchen?

If you like this post,
check out how I made window valances for the kitchen from a shower curtain.